It’s harder to change the culture of harassment at corporations than they would have you believe. The story of Ford and their employees’ treatment of fellow female workers in the last twenty years is despicable. This is where culture change really needs to happen.

Women who work under these conditions who are told they are disloyal for speaking up have been failed by numerable organizations, not least of which: their unions.

The culture change we need is more than just fair treatment of women or even anyone other than white men. We need a culture change which says people are more important than profits. We have to embrace the belief that our citizens are our most important asset not our profit making entities. Along side this change will come an acceptance that marginalized groups like women and minorities cannot be mistreated in the name of capitalism.

much less attention has been focused on the plight of blue-collar workers, like those on Ford’s factory floors. After the #MeToo movement opened a global floodgate of accounts of mistreatment, a former Chicago worker proposed a new campaign: “#WhatAboutUs.”

We know it’s already over for the Presidential race, but its going to take years to work through all the broken things this election has exposed. Years!…a very tremendous amount of years it’s going to take.

This column is a great, albeit painfully amusing, summary to date of the most obvious wrongs to start with. There’s still a few weeks left to add some additional transgressions.

Is there a double standard for women in politics?
Imagine if it were Hillary Clinton who had had five children by three husbands…

There is an economic cost to keeping women in their place. It’s $95B in Africa. You would think that would be incentive enough to change but it isn’t.

The West needs to adjust their incentive policies for developing countries to favor gender equality, family planning, and contraception. Until we incentive the behavior they’re not going to change on their own. And the whole world will continue to have problems as a result.

Sub-Saharan Africa loses around $95 billion a year due to gender inequality, jeopardizing the continent’s efforts for economic growth, according to a U.N. report launched Sunday.

Deeply-rooted structural obstacles such as unequal distribution of resources and political power, combined with social institutions that sustain inequality are holding back African women, and the continent, said the Africa Human Development Report 2016 by U.N. Development Program.

If gender gaps are closed in labor markets, education and health, it will accelerate the eradication of poverty and hunger, said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark.

The notion that women’s sports need to be protected is paternalistic, Karkazis said, calling it “the mantle under which all kinds of discriminatory and sexist ideas enter.”
Radcliffe and gold medal athletes in Rio, like the American gymnast Simone Biles and the swimmer Katie Ledecky, have been as dominant as Semenya or more dominant, but their gender has not been openly questioned, Pape said.

The West should be promoting reproductive rights as a gateway to solving lots of other societal ills. Giving women throughout the world control over their bodies is the only starting point that makes sense. Once all women have the ability to make decisions about their reproductive systems we will finally be on the way to gender equality across the globe.

Seeing things which could be fixed but aren’t is maddening. Sure it takes a long time to improve health outcomes in the developing world, but fistula’s in African women seems like something the West can help with. The article links access to contraception and C sections with reductions in the debilitating condition.

How can we say we want to improve things in the developing world and not start with 50% of the population.